Benitez brought a strong Spanish contingent with him to the north-east and it would come as a surprise to no one that Antia, and coaches Francisco De Miguel Moreno and Antonio Gomez Perez, struggled to pick up the local Geordie lingo.

But the Spanish lads are obviously getting to grips with the Geordie lifestyle – thanks to a nifty Geordie to English cribsheet sheet on Antia’s office wall.

A piece of paper pinned to the wall details: ‘Geordie Words Translated.’

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